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With COVID-19 still lingering, schools take precautions

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Cleveland Jewish News
Aug. 11, 2022

By ABIGAIL PREISZIG

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to linger as children enter the 2022-23 school year. With continuous shifts in protocols and attitudes, it is important for parents or guardians to remain in the know when it comes to the health and safety of their child.

Karen Heitlinger, The Music Settlement’s chair for the Center for Early Childhood in Cleveland, Nikki Claverie, manager of the The Music Settlement’s Center for Music, and Noelle Jones-Marotta, education director for Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development in Shaker Heights, discussed pandemic protocols their schools are implementing as they remain fully in person….

Hanna Perkins will continue to monitor signs of illness and urge children to stay home if they are not feeling well, Jones-Marotta said. But they don’t require vaccines or masks at the time and will have weekly administration meetings to discuss changing COVID-19 protocols and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines throughout the year.

Hanna Perkins allows collaborative efforts between students and teachers when it comes to keeping the classroom clean. It enforces the sanitization of surfaces before and after classroom meals and frequent hand washing. “We include kids in a lot of discussions about cleaning,” she said. “The students have done a nice job of contributing to the discussion and developing their own independence in terms of cleaning their own spaces and sharing their ideas with their friends and faculty about keeping the classroom clean.”

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